boing boing boing reverse one and a half somersaults with three and a half twists, in the free position, no splash (‘natch)

Suz!
WhAT UP?

hey senator — how’s sac tonight?

Gosh, Suzanne,
Even with the volume up high, I had trouble hearing the Muppets. How are you?

It’s just nice to see something less soul-sucking than the last thread – it is Friday!

Nice diva diva!

*G*

Good lil mud wrestling down there in Eli’s thread.

*G*

I love it when our Pups take it to the phreaks intent on shit disturbing.

How ya doin?

Oh, superb!

Not in Sac. In NOLA. Hottest summer on record. When I go outside my glasses fog up.

hey ce — did you check both the volume on the utube and your computer volume? how’s ohio tonight?

hey fishguy — how ya doing tonight?

hey larue — how was your day today?

Hey! Pups creamed the idjit, n I flagged his ass.

Click on their name, click on their profile, then flag the asshats!

It’s a good waste of FDL/MyFDL white space when they run free and unencumbered!

*G*

Yer a fish dude? For a living or rec?

hot dayam, do you have a/c?

Popcorn, eh?

I bought a hot air popper this week. So far I like olive oil and salt. I tried shredded Parmesan cheese today, but it didn’t adhere to the popcorn, it just fell through to the bottom of the bowl.

So, what’s your favorite popcorn recipe?

Brutal Senator . . . as you know it’s been 100F n hi 90′s here in yer absence . . . LeSigh.

hey dave — how ya doing tonight?

evening, Suzzzz

hey ppd — how was your day?

Lazy! Honey was home, we went shopping to stoke up the freezer n frig . . . she hit the track and I been woodshedding my dobro work off and on, between a cold beer n foodie stuff.

Picked some basil, messed with plants, tossed one mater cuz it got red spider mites and died fast . . .

Lazy! At 97F I ain’t doin much anyway . . . lol

It’s cooler. The monsoons are setting up right on time. I got a tiny amount of rain today. The temperature has dropped around 10 degrees from a few days back. Makes it a lot easier to function.

My new KVM switch arrived yesterday (only a week getting here from Durango). Somebody along the line had changed my street address from what I had given them, then they refused to deliver saying the (changed) address was invalid.

The new KVM fixes my resetting keyboard issue, so my systems are now functioning flawlessly.

Also, I don’t know if there’s a format for this, but I did just join FDL a few minutes ago — not as a congrats, but as an apology. I’ve been participating/lurking on FDL for almost four years, helping as I could on a post-doc’s salary. When this news came out this week about the White House and SS benefits, I realized that FDL was about the only site I visited that made sense any more — and I have a graduate policy degree from William & Mary. Thanks to Jane et al. for all their work, and I’m sorry that it’s taken so long to be able to formally support as a member what you all do.

hell, yes!

OH no, of course not! Just tapping on my MacBook volume key, duh….

Ohio in Cleveland tonight is cool and breezy. We have a three day art fair here that is wonderful. Hey FirePups!

Add the cheese to it, finely grated, after it pops while it’s hot.

Me, I like garlic, some soy sauce, ginger . . . the garlic and ginger goes in with sesame oil, the soy sprinkled in after it pops.

*G*

Yea, Ron told me tonight how hot it has been. Crap.

Welcome aboard, FGD!

woohoo — the tech crew is going to be doing some tech work to find and fix this forking glitch with the forking redirects when ya refresh or click on some links.

in the mean time, jane has a help us debug post with an embedded form to fill out when ya have a site glitch.

Hmmm … garlic powder would probably work just fine instead of salt. Worth a try.

Kewl, welcome to the Pup family!

Paid or not, Pups are well informed and fun!

You seem to be both, as well!

woohoo and welcome!!! late late nite is pretty informal and is the perfect place for delurking :)

what part of the country are ya in fishguy?

BTW, whenever I get the strange redirects, I can always clear it up by clearing my browser cache. So far, it works every time.

I went looking for that earlier today and couldn’t find it.

Can I suggest they list it PERMANENTLY in the right hand sidebar somewhere? The details they need are impossible to recall if ya have to go looking for the form . . .

N bless them all behind the scenes, this is brutal stuff they are chasin down.

Hey Suz, the Carson-Muppets is a find!
And welcome to FishGuyDave

@ Larue: Yep, both commercial and rec — I’m an academic fisheries scientist down in South Florida, having left my D.C. policy life to play with more fishes and less politicians. Of course, I now have to deal with Governor Scott, so it’s a mixed bag.

pretty good, thanks Suzzz

But it’s a DRY heat . . . lol

I’m guessin you got heat AND 80% or worse humidity. That’s brutal stuff . . . .

hey newton — glad ya liked it. how was your day?

So Hey Dave!
Welcome.

hopefully, the tech crew fixes it when they do their work this weekend.

Thanks, and I used to work in the early morning, so got a lot of good advice from eCAHN (IIRC the handle) regarding things academic. As Jimmy Buffet said in song, “There’s a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.” The same applies at FDL, in my experience (and in the best possible sense).

yep. forkin’. no wait. fuckin’ hot and humid. But I am walking anyway in the morning on the levee by the MS River.

Sure, garlic powder or granulated garlic. I like fresh myself.

Problem is heating the oil hot enuff to pop before you put in the corn, so I heat the oil first then add garlic, ginger n corn all at once and cover.

Welcome FGD. I joined FDL for the same reason. Seems to me the other progressive sites have surrendered their integrity to not rock Obama’s reelection chances.

Their tunnel vision causes them not to see Obama only takes from them without giving anything back.

Or maybe they don’t care any more than he does….

Fine, nice here.
You making the journey over the hill this weekend?

we pups tend to be a helpful bunch — if ya have any questions, just ask away and someone will know the answer or point ya in the proper direction for finding out.

How kewl . . . n my condolances on yer gov, I hear ya . . . lol

hey robert — how’s soPA tonight?

Yallooo! OMG, I have to STOP working on this data thing right now and just yakk a bit.

Wazzhappening?

Oh! I thot they were all on it already . . . . and it was going to be an ongoing effort of perhaps weeks . .

Kewl!

*G*

not sure… maybe tuesday but if i wait until a week from tuesday, i will time the visit with karina’s birthday – mmmmm cake (laughing)

Hey Larue,
I love the garlic with the center stem, the cloves are so fragrant.

yalloo kelly! how’s denver tonight?

Alright! Keep on walkin gal . . .

I got stuck recently, no loss in a month, so it’s time to change some things . . . . but honey is doing real well, only 10 more to lose for her! She’s great inspiration, we hit the gym most every day when she comes home from work . . . it’s the days we skip that catches up with us both it seems . . . sigh, so many calories, so little burn . . .

they’ve been working on it but fixing it will require a wee bit of down time. i gather its a real bitch of a job

Wow – - Johnny was sure cute back in the 1960s.

Shameless Friday night plug:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Circle-8-Writers/163212760355932#!/notes/robert-arend/an-interview-with-twin-trinity-media-elements-of-dimension-anthology-contributin/225683170805688

We all were. I even had hair back then.

I’m so old, I think I saw this “live”!

*clink*

My Gent Jack, yer upscale martooni or 3 . . .

*G*

Thanks, and precisely why I kept coming back — whether for advice on regional resource extraction policy or the best mango-apple pie recipe, fire pups are indeed always there (note that I didn’t specify which was more important… I am a cook at heart).

Howdy CE. I just buy peeled garlic in the store . . . I have NO patience for peeling garlic anymore . . . did a lifetime of it . . . lol

Only time I buy whole garlic heads is elephant garlic for roasting.

Good stuff!

Less stormy than yesterday! OMG, yesterday was NUTS! Today, ok.

I ate waaaaay too much at the Southern Yacht Club tonight. My family goes there every friday nite for dinner. And we ate at a French restaurant several nights ago. I had a petit marmite with scallops and shitaki mushrooms. Lardy, I am fat like a tick.

hey jamawani — how was your day today?

hey tmdave — how ya doing tonight?

Evening, all. Great video, Suzanne. Funny to see the Muppets so adult oriented!

I lurves me some roasted garlic. Yum!

Well, I had hair in the ’70s…

dood, you are so gonna fit in (laughing) we forking love talking about food

Can’t get to the page. Facebook says it isn’t available right now.

Oh, that sounds excellent!

Heh. I haz yer Merlot tonight; no toonies. Werking on data.

I’m manually scraping all 435 House Members websites fer info. My eyez iz bleedin’ after 121 of them….

hey openhope — how’s the sound tonight?

I would imagine Suz, bless each and every one of them.

It’s like rooting out trolls, they keep springing up somewhere else.

;-)

Welcome fishguy.

There are quite a few Floridian insomniacs that hang out in Late Late night.

FOOD!

BTW, you and my old buddy Tanbark were stellar on Eli’s thread down below.

Well struck, Sir!

hey tuez — how was your day?

N I’m now droolin n hongry, THANKS!

lol

late late night food!

I know, I know, but I can’t resist those home grown heads of garlic at the street fairs. And they are lovely.

i’m still coveting this — stephanie said it was delicious

Well, I’m not exactly shy.

FOOD!

Wait, I already started talking about food…

I keep getting this link when I refresh. Previously tonight, I was getting it when I went from the front page to the diary.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/firedoglake/fdl

Hmm, tested link worked for me. Maybe Facebook decided it was inappropriate, even terrorist in scope and took kit down….

I’m impressed. I’ve got to get cracking on an info rally here Aug.20th. I have to work 2 legal pads just to sort out the bad from the worse.

Try clearing your browser cache. As I mentioned above, it seems to work for me.

Yep, SO much you can do with it.

Cream cheese, roasted garlic, some herbs, homemade spread.

Goes REAL well in homemade salad dressings (I use the blender).

By itself on warmed slices of artisan nutty breads.

Warm up some brie n mix the roasted garlic with the brie (add herbs).

Add it to winter time fondue, with port wine . . . mmmmmmmm . . .

that’s exactly what ya need to report on the jane help us debug post

Wow . . . n thanks for yer senators list ya posted earlier today.

I’ll be making calls Monday . . . despite that fact they are all assholes.

;-)

Thanks for the welcome folks, and tuezday, I expect I’ll hear from you again. With two little ones by myself this weekend, and a big proposal due on Monday, I’m calling it a night. Happy chatting, all.

A HAH! It was YOU!

Well, ok, let’s STILL keep talking about it. Yes, there are the dessert lovers, and that’s wonderful.

But me? I’m wanting to concoct the ULTIMATE sandwich. Yes, I said that. U.L.T.I.M.A.T.E S.A.N.D.W.I.C.H.

g’nite fgdave

One never knows, do one! I just tried it again and it worked.

What info rally? Do you need help? I have trix up me sleeve data-wise…

So, that would be SPAM wrapped in bacon and dipped in melted Velveeta, placed between two slices of Wonderbread with the crusts cut off?

Well, as you know, the shuttle went off and since I decided only a 30 percent chance of a go wasn’t worth the hassle, we didn’t go to the cape to see it. It was too cloudy to see it from here.

As I stepped off the front porch to walk to the street to, hopefully, watch the shuttle, I ran into a black snake, which didn’t make me too happy.

A few minutes later, while sitting on the side porch (I have a plethora of porches)a garden snake scared the shit out of me. That made me wonder if my husband had passed and I was single again.

A few minutes ago a roach flew up the leg of my shorts. Not sure why I happened to cross paths with the only one energetic enough to fly.

The good news? I finally convinced the lizard, who was trying to take over my kitchen windowsill through eminent domain, to go back outside.

Life in Florida.

How was your day?

Hey, Suz. The Sound is perfection today. 70 degrees, no wind, no tourists. :)

Alabama Rarebit.

Me too. I love a good sandwich.

My senator Bob Casey told local action news he thinks the medicare/social security chip put on the table was the right thing to do to get resolution on the debt ceiling.

I sent him a postcard informing him I promised our Catholic lord & savior I would not vote for him ever again if he votes for those cuts, along with my vast rhythm-method produced generations of family…..

jeebus, a lot less exciting than yours. i gave token a bath yesterday cause he was coated in dirt and dust from rolling in some horrible dead smelling spot in the driveay. when he was let out first thing this morning, he immediately headed down to the driveway and proceeded to roll in enough dirt to give himself another dirt bath.

happy lucky 100 kelly!!!

I am so jealous of you. I was in NO a month before Katrina. In that weeklong visit, I fell so in love with the place I’m determined to return to live there if I outlive The Sweety….

Off to bed. Toodle-pip, peeps. Be good to one another.

g’nite dave

And, only if you fry it.

In France they would call it a Croque-monsieur of shit LOL!

C’mon Dave, not novelty sandwiches. [Even though, I'd eat that bacon-velveeta concoction.] I’m talking looking for the Holy Grail of sandwiches.

I am mostly visiting my family. Both parents are in decline. Ron and I are considering moving here after our lease is up next Feb.

I take it Token is a dog? I’ve been lucky, only had one who ever rolled in nasty shit and only once or twice.

I do, I do. Still haven’t gotten permission for the park, but I’m moving ahead. We’re envisioning a USUncut/tradeshow format for information about social cuts that are being implemented and the corporations that operate in our community without paying their fair share of taxes.

I think a club sandwich is pretty close.

I had a dog that rolled in a dead seal once. nasty doesn’t even begin to describe it.

Jeez, and I thought Slug combat was a bad day! Do you think Nature is pissed off at you?

If you do, keep a boarding room reserved for me!

token, cutest dog in the world, 10 lbsish category.

Something tells me that could even be worse than skunk.

his favorite is dead flat mouse — i went down to where he was rolling and there was no dead flat mouse there. maybe he has a new fav but i couldn’t find anything in his roll spot

Our dogs rolled in dead seal regularly. They sure had shiny coats!!
There’s a smell that just won’t leave your nose.

Na, I’m too much of a tree huger.

With the exception of lubber grasshoppers and roaches, I let most things live.

All the pups are welcome if we really do it. I know some killer places to eat. I have to familiarize myself with the music scene again though.

Could be he’s rolling in the slime trail left by snails or slugs?

Oh, he is a cutie.

A fave. Tantalizing.

Yet I find I want something a bit more. I’ve made a cranberry-cheddar bread in the past to make turkey clubs, and that was close.

Still, not the sandwich Nirvana I seek.

could be — i couldn’t see anything where rolls. its in the dirt part just about 2 steps from the lawn

Ahh, so what you looking for, some kinda eye-popper chart?

The day we moved to the American River Ron (husband) lost Wally (dog). As he was walking home to tell me he had lost our little dog, he saw a gray figure standing by the bike path. It was Wally and he had rolled in a long dead salmon.

thanks — he has a great personality too — he’s very much a people dog and is a social butterfly at parties — going from lap to lap seeking adoration and skritches

*shrudder*

I’m into these guys myself.

Best kept secret in the dog world.

http://www.google.com/search?q=keeshond&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=7O0XToL9BsXa0QH95sWWBQ&ved=0CDMQsAQ&biw=1263&bih=521

*notetoself*

(this guys good, don’t fuck with him)

It’s a deal. The Sweety’ll just have to up and go be with the lord, though. She hated NO because of the humidity….

ooooo so fluffy! bet they are wonderful bed warmers in the winter

Tipitina’s? Our friend Chris works there – server. He’s faboo. Lurves me some Chris.

My first husband, who I met at Tulane, refused to live here due to the weather.

Peanut butter, mayo & grape jelly sandwiches singed like grilled cheese in fry butter.

Loved them when I was a kid….

I have been bad at Tipitina’s several times.

In those circumstances, the dog is all of a sudden the husband’s dog, and that’s who gets to bathe said dog–outside.

LMAO!

Well, that’s to be expected. I would think less of you otherwise.

It’s all we got left, to harass them daily.

Good work, hoss.

I’ve never owned one far enough north to know if they are good bed warmers. They have so much hair, they generally avoid the bed, even in winter. They are AC hogs. If they can hog a vent, either in the house or car, you ain’t gettin’ any.

I really wish I could make those beignets like they do at Cafe Du Monde.

Whoever walketh the dawg and loseth the dawg, batheth the dawg after said dawg rolleth in the nasty.

In my family they are affectionately known as gut bombs.

that sounds like baileycat — she thinks i control the weather. when we lived in boulder creek and it was 104 with no a/c and only one ceiling fan, baileycat would hog the back of the sofa, doing her monorail impression direction under the ceiling fan — hogging all the air and giving me dirty looks that proclaimed that she was wearing a forking fur coat and for me to back off bitch

I’ve ordered club sandwiches all over the world. I recall once or twice finding a really, really good one. For some reason, one of my absolutely worthless goals in life, aside from shopping in every major city in the world, is to eat a club sandwich in every major city in the world.

Of course, the finances have seriously curtailed my quest in the past 5 or so years.

Yes, also trying to winnow down the info to a few important issues, so as not to overwhelm.
We have so much to fucking choose from. A main theme has to be the work of Americans for Prosperity and a run down of their various organizations active in Wa.
It’s time to connect the dots between our public servants, the union-busting,social program crippling bills they’re working on and the motu’s who are financing the games. May as well start with our regional representatives.
It’s a work-in-progress that’s going to be the beginning of a real community discussion. Hopefully.

Likewise, whoever feeds the dog, something the dog shouldn’t eat, gets to take the hose to said dog.

I probably don’t need to mention I’m never the culprit.

LOL!

That is pretty funny.

Tucker, our Main Coon, loves the heat. Ron found him sleeping in the garage today. It was over 95 outside. I cannot imagine what the temp was in there. And he has a long coat. Sometimes I make him come inside. He thinks I am a stupid human when i do that.

You do control the weather it’s called the thermostat. Haven’t you noticed, rain is your fault, as is cold. When the cat has to be in full time, she makes sure I pay for it, which is why she has been up for adoption for 5 years.

Well, you know my email, yes? It’s no secret; kelly1 DOT canfield AT gmail DOT com.

If you narrow down what data you guys wish to present, or even need help with “what are we trying to show?” hit me up. Always game in the info world.

I think the left/right dynamic has to be dumped.

It’s us versus them.

here’s that look

No takers, hey?

I look like that when having a hot flash.

My Main Coon (The Merlin)is the same way. All rooms either have ceiling fans, AC or both, except we keep off AC in The Daughter’s room unless she comes in from Philly for one of her short visits. That room can get pretty hot; yet that’s where we find him, near a corner closet, sleeping….

is how i recognized it myself…. i don’t think i would have survived menopause wearing a fur coat 24/7

Nope no takers and the damn cat is spayed, vaccinated and even house trained. I assume she is good with kids as the only time she bites me is when I’m too “slow” to feed her.

It would take too long to detail, but I been into chicken n sirloin paillard’s lately . . .

So I’m thinkin of a mesquite grilled paillard of some sort, seasoned or marinated of course.

Has to be cheese, for me it would have to be VERY flavorful, so something strong.

Sliced purple heirloom maters, thick enuff to grill on the mesquite.

A portabella has to figure in here, marinated too, n grilled.

Bermuda onion, perhaps a full one grilled n smoked on the mesquite. Then sliced to the sammich.

Some kind of salad green . . . this is wide open country. Belgium endive to arugula to heart of romaine . . . use leaf or knife shred it? I dunna, takes research. ;-)

For bread, has to be some whole wheat nut artisan thing, maybe scooped out both sides . . . toasted somehow, sprinkle EVOO n some balsamic on it.

I’m not fond of the bell pepper family on sammich’s, but I’ve done it. They’d hafta be smoked on the grill n peeled of course. Orange one’s, maybe a combo of red n yellow. No green, way to declasse anyore.

The kickers would be, hot peppers, marinated cukes, sweet pickles, n such.

Like I said, this would take a lot of research.

*G*

So far this year hasn’t been too bad for me but the last couple of years I used to think I could melt an ice bar all by myself.

Is that Woody Allen sitting beside Carson? I loved “Midnight in Paris”. I saw the Stein exhibit at the SFMOMA and then I saw the movie and it was perfect.

Geebuz that’s some serious good work OH . . . good on ya and an inspiration.

I have an onion soup thing. I love finding a good onion soup. French Onion, Leeks and Potato,..

Great pic!

Here is a funny one of Tucker. It is a facebook image. I don’t have access to my links right now.

hey slouching — how ya doing tonight? i believe it is woody allen

monorail cats of the heat unite!

Yummy, onion soup is good but a well designed sandwich, heaven…

Yes, mucho research. It’s a lifelong project. *G*

Why does he do this? Is it to relieve something in his coat or skin one can’t see?

Perhaps, a warrior thang . . . smear the enemy with his body?

Interesting stuff, I know little about these things in dogs, or any other animals. Whales jump n splash to loosen stuff on them I think . . . something like that?

Okay, my real guilty pleasure is stuffed grape leaves.

They are so addictive I even make them myself.

i have no flippin clue dood — i think he likes the smell. other than liking to roll on dead stuff, he’s a great little dog.

Nite all. It is late here. I am used to LLN being, well, early.

g’nite mary mac

Goodnight, Mary. Hope your levee walk is pleasant tomorrow….

Wow, thass unique.

I used to love wheat bread with sweet pickles n honey n peanut butter.

Never thot to toast it . . . damn I missed that one. ;-)

I’m not looking to knock their socks off. Reality wasn’t built in a day. And I think it’s important to keep it within the local community. PR and flyers in windows.
But it goes better with food, music and flowers. That’s my passion.

Now wait minute, there’s that combo thing that can REALLY light one’s rockets. There’s that PERFECT French Dip, for instance. That is arguably a necessary sandwich/soup combo.

I have served a prosciutto and pesto on an Italian loaf (thinly sliced) to dip in a hot Parmigiano cheese and red wine dip. Crazy purple and green looking but, uh, YUM.

They do it so their 2-legged persons overlook their day to day indiscretions.

Counter surfing ain’t so bad, compared to rolling in shit (sometimes literally).

G’nite Mary

Samosas with fresh mint sauce? My morrocan mint is almost ready and the baby potatoes are big enough to steal.

I have served a prosciutto and pesto on an Italian loaf (thinly sliced) to dip in a hot Parmigiano cheese and red wine dip. Crazy purple and green looking but, uh, YUM.

Now that I would fly to Denver for, all by itself.

Hey Suz and pups

Garlic to dead seal slime, nice. Twenty pounds of scapes in the freezer and will be digging 2K bulbs in about two weeks. Mr, soon to be rolling in fresh garlic, wishing everyone well. 64 degrees and comfy sleeping near the big lake.

Ya let yer pets hog the fan?

But then, that look IS rather . . . *STUN*

lol

hey nonq — how ya been?

Sweet dreams, marymccurnin.

Where do you live, I’ll be over.

I’m in – that sounds terrific!

Hey, nonquixote!

i pegged it as disrupt on the cat deathometer

I made killer onion soups in my time in the biz.

Quality stock which I’d make from scratch be it demi glace or chicken based, roasted or pan sweated onions, leeks, garlic.

The crouton is critical, as is the cheese.

A puff pastry top is killer, especially if ya season the puff pastry.

*G*

What’s YER proclivity?

Got a base regimen to start from?

N NO, I will NOT accept deep fried battered bread with ham n cheese dusted with powdered sugar!

:p

Dolmas!

You like with lamb or only rice n seasonings?

Speaking of puff pastry, can I make a request?

Do you have a recipe for cherry turnovers? They’ve gotten so expensive I can’t bring myself to buy them but god I love ‘em.

Been working more than the last two years, internets are disintigrating to almost useless around here and I feel oh so much safer now that Walker signed the concealed carry legislation today. Which wing-nuts who couldn’t get a gun yesterday will have a bulge in their pants next week? Recall election fake candidates and all the good stuff happening here. Never a dull moment. Doing fine I guess, thanks.

Heh! That reminds me.

For some reason, Belch has started saying “Hippy” as “Hippeh” like “Kitteh.” Started in Lincoln.

I asked him, “What’s that about? SouthPark or something?” He said no. Just wants to say “hippeh.”

So, I joined him. I’m all “hippeh.”

jeebus, nerves are gonna get more frayed as the temps rise… hot, alcohol and guns are never a good recipe

Likes. The Smell.

Of dead things.

Wow . . . ;-)

Oh well, if he makes you happy, and he and the cat indulge you.

Good family!

*G*

I have loved all the pics you have posted over the years. Them two have GREAT personality that you share with us readers.

I haven’t had a pet for decades, n we have not had any.

Like we feel about kids tho, we delight in OTHERS tales of same!

lol

As I said, well done . . . great example of how to do the grass roots thang. N thanks, once again . . . . for doing it.

Since I’m neither Greek or Lebanese, I take liberties.

I try to use lamb, but will go with pork if lamb isn’t on hand.

I also use feta, cause I love feta. And since I’m not Greek or Lebanese…

And I’ll stick in a combo of allspice, coriander, mint, nutmeg, etc., depending on my mood. And since I’m not Greek or Lebanese…

But the egg/lemon sauce is the bomb. I’m not gonna go look up the correct name this time of the night, but I know you know what I’m talking about.

happy lucky 200 larue!!!

That’s a good base . . . *G*

Oh yeah, you mean avgelomeno. Tis excellent.

*droolin while tummy growls*

Yes that’s it!!!

Did you really pull that off the top of your head or did you need to google the correct spelling? I could have googled but at 3 am….

Be honest.

*smiles*

I know my Greek! Top of me head.

Too kewt . . .

i had to go into the kitchen and make myself a kielbasa, mayo, onion and avocado on potato bread sammy.

The problem is the Irish can’t cook, I’m one too, so we have to stray. At least you’ve bothered to learn the names. I just say it’s that egg/lemon sauce that starts with av something.

Oh yeah, puff pastry and good cheese is most excellent. I’m finding there’s no healthy substitute for puff dough and there never will be one. :(
I’m getting pretty confident with a healthy[er] pie crust.

hahahahahahaha

Most excellent; that’s Polish, Belgian, French, New World (avocado) and Polish (potato bread) again.

Slide a piece this way, if’n you don’t mind.

its forking great tuez

Nope, I never was too good or interested in deserts or baking when I was in the biz. A major short coming, too . . . . I coulda ruled the culinary world has I known how to do so. N teach others.

That’s a signature and needed finish on the menu for revenue.

I CAN dig up and go thru my famed white and dark chocolate mousse with raspberry puree . . . . complicated, lengthy . . . expensive.

Best desert I ever did . . . I made a decent Zabaione in my time, but that’s too old school anymore . . .

OMG, Suz ain’t Merickan

token’s already called dibs on prewashing the plate…. i’ll wrap a bit of the sammy in plastic and stick it in the tubes for ya dood – hope it doesn’t get squished

I am getting so hungry.

Oh :(

The last time I had some leftover phyllo dough, from making spanikopita, I got the big idea to make turnovers with it.

It didn’t work so well.

I was hoping you could help.

I USED to be a hippeh . . . hair n all. Guess, I still am, at heart.

Aside from that failed part supporting Libya . . . next to Obama, worst decision I ever made.

Well, I broke a young woman’s heart badly once when I was younger, it still haunts me to this day.

Forgive Me Father? Some Hail Mary’s n a lit candle or two perhaps?

;-)

ya need puff pastry not phyllo to make a good turnover

Wow, you got it goin on!

Those are EXCELLENT combos!

That’s top shelf efforts . . . . nice!

Dude, the warm custards are BACK! Fire up your zabaglione again. Couple a berries and you’re good to go. Much easier than flan.

Better me n you I guess?

*G*

I kinda figured, that after the fact, but for some reason I thought they were almost kissin’ cousins.

?

Never heard that term?

I’ll say good night/good morning to you all, sorry, but the connections here have been slow for about six weeks, and it is difficult to read much less follow any threads.

On a Mary Mac comment above, when I logged in I was taken to a 2008 C.H Smith
thread. Flukey.

Be well and be good. Ten years after, the copper connections are promising DSL service beginning this month. I signed up for a trial. I’ll believe it when I actually see it.

i can make flan, piece of cake. never had the guts to try to make zaba

Uh, sharsies?

:p

g’nite nonq — the tech crew is working on having that faulty redirect fixed – tis a site glitch and not on your end

too late, between me, kelly, and token, its all gone. twas a leftover half kielbasa that i had previously made with leftover pintos baked long and slow

That’s exactly right. Phyllo won’t puff, by design. You need a buttery-er dough, with more layers to puff up, and at a higher temperature too, btw.

I never touch the stuff since I left the biz.
As ya say, calories galore!

But I don’t mind fattening up OTHERS!

*G*

I was lord and king with butter in the kitchens for my sauces.

*G*

Good Gawd everyones up late with the munchies.

Oh, don’t give up. FDL moved their servers two weeks ago and we’ve all had problems, regardless of connection speed (and mines pretty good), since then. It’s a migration problem, maybe a line of code was lost, so come back.

hey homeroid — how’s homer tonight?

Yeh, I’m still grinnin . . .

I had to go get something to eat about an hour ago, too.

I’m gonna pay for it tomorrow in the gym . . . chicken paillard seasoned and rolled up with pepper jack cheese into the black pan.

WIth a lid.

SLiced up n gobbled. Sick . . . *G*

But, but, but I spray the shit out of phyllo dough with butter flavored, god only knows what. That doesn’t count?

I tell ya, I’m Irish, can’t really cook.

Squished?

Pannini!

guess it depends on hot those tubes get dood….

Wish I could.

Try frozen puff pastry in the supermarket?

The filling is all your choice, I can DO fillings . . . *G*

It’s that crazy white sauce that goes into a specific soup, avgelomeno, but if you temper it in less a volume than SOUP, it’s a great sauce as thick as you make it.

Lemondy chicken stew. Cure the plague kinda stuff. Never did get good at bezerks.

No. You must turn your attention to pie. Besides, phyllo’s fucking expensive now,too.

Fire up the skype and I’ll help you if you need actual puff pastry, LOL! Quit killing phyllo!

Yeah, but I like me a good flan, too.

They is back? Really?

Did Bourdain say so? If not . . . *tosseshiswhisk*

ohmystars that sounds yummy!

LOL!

PIE!

Oh lord, beans with pork products . . .

Killin me tonite . . . all y’all . . .

*G*

Who needs Bourdain?

I am QUEEN of all Kitchens!

N I don’t smoke!

Can’t speak for the other one’s tho . .

;-)

Good to see ya!

killah

Fillings I do need help with. Canned cherries just don’t cut it.

For decades (did I just say that) I’ve refused to bake because if it ain’t in the house, I can’t eat it. But as I approach 50 and realize I can now kinda, barely kinda, indulge since I went without for so long, I’m looking into sweets. And I love turnovers, even though they aren’t sexy.

I know white sauce as beschamel . . I need to go google that one.

Good to learn something new! Thanks!

Hmm, maybe just a beschamel with lemon zest?

I’m laffin so much I got nuttin to retort with.

Killin me . . . just killin me.

Here, take my whisk, please . .

I don’t know how to make a god dam pie.

I’m assuming key lime doesn’t count.

Never did like the light pastry type of deserts. I always was attracted to the heavy cheese cake or the black forest cake. My years in the kitchens was always about the soups and sauces. To this day i make up stuff that blows people away.

No no, this is different. Do you know a kind of Greek lasagna called “pastitsio”?

What one does is to make that avgelomeno soup very thick, like only 1 cup of stock, and THAT is the sauce that goes in that pastitsio, as well as the nutmeg bit. Very tasty.

Key lime is a hard pie to make. However, it sounds like pie doesn’t float your boat! :)

Well, cherries fresh are a pain to pit. N filling with pits is da pits!

So:

1 can pitted cherries, drained, reserve the liquid for reduction.

Zest of one orange, 1/2 of lemon zest.

1/2 cup triple sec (or Cointreu if ya have money to burn)

1/2 half cup brandy (cheap or expensive depending on budget)

1/2 cup white sugar.

Combine liquids and zests, reduce by half, add cherries and reduce till thickened.

Reduction can start out hot, but when ya add cherries has to be slowed up. Gotta keep an eye on it as it thickens. At some point, it’s filling thickened . . .

Hope this helps some?

I make a very, very thick avgelomeno. Interestingly it is the only “gravy” I can make.

Remember I’m Irish.

I WANT THE RECIPE.

the moon is hanging low over the bay and casting an amber glow in the waters as the stars twinkle

tis about time for me to turn back into a pumpkin peeps. thanks for letting me hang out with ya tonight and for all the extra calories i munched. hope to see ya tomorrow night for sat nite cartoons.

g’nite all – i think i have some shortbread cookies in the kitchen calling my name…

That’s the fun part of cooking, being creative. I got a smoker as a birthday gift. Finally got the #1 son to put it together.
Very cool. When I processed our meat chix this time I set aside meat for sausage making. Another cooking learning curve coming up.

Ya know it comes down to the limes.

When i was a kid i helped my mom make the pies.(my other brothers never caught on to this trick) But after all these years i still know how to make a basic crust and roll it out. The filling i would have to work on as my mom was all boil the shit out of it and and a pound of sugar. Or open a can an dump it in. But in all it is not hard just a bit time consuming.

Devil’s in the details. I adore limes. For some reason we don’t get good key limes up here in N. Wa. Or good chestnuts in winter.

I will be looking into that. Thanks.

THANK YOU.

I will book mark that and try it tomorrow

Monsieur Suacier!

Mon frere!

Me too.

*G*

Tiny little bubbles at 3am.

I did a series of posts at two blogs about sauces, reductions, mhy time in the kitchens.

Alas, I can’t link them into here, as they are gone form the source sites and all I have is the saved web pages on my desktop.

I put a lot into those diaries over the years.

*G*

Like we put a lot into our time in the kitchens.

Too kewl . . . it was fun then, wasn’t it . . .*G*

Nope.

Don’t know the pat . . .

I will tho, in the next few days . .

Got my attention, hoss, thanks again.

Can we all take this up tomorrow? I’d like to finish but time zones are a bitch.

Good night, Suzanne, thank you for being a great host.
Sweet dreams.

Ok!

Like I said, it can be expensive, or not . . .

Hope to hear how it came out for ya!

Dang, I missed Suz heading for cookies.

Nite ma’am, n thanks for the chats!

Yer da best LLN Queen, despite Kelly’s bragaddo about Kitchen Queen! (still lmao on that one hoss)

*G*

Heh, even here in CA it’s midnite thirty plus.

N honey sez we got ‘stuff’ to do tomorrow.

Great chats tonite, thanks to all Pups.

Hug ‘em close.

Great way to close a few bad days of bad news . . .

I liked that.

*smiles*

Good morning, pups. It’s Cohen and Nocera today. Mr. Cohen presents us with “The D.S.K. Endgame” in which he says it’s time for Dominique Strauss-Kahn to start on that memoir. Oh HELL no it isn’t. The last thing the world needs is a self-serving, self-excusing memoir from another MOTU who thinks that whatever he wants he can take. D.S.K. needs to quit politics and get into therapy. Mr. Nocera, in “Murdoch’s Fatal Flaw,” says there is nothing more thrilling to Rupert Murdoch than a scoop by one of his papers — the more salacious, the better. One can only hope that this scandal will bring the whole stinking edifice down. For some insight into folks like D.S.K and Murdoch read “The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry” by Jon Ronson.

Here they are.

The coffee and tea are ready, the cold drinks are in the fridge, and I’ve got blueberry pancakes this morning. The smoke from the Okefenokee fires, over 100 miles away, is extremely evident this morning. The air is hazy, and the smell is strong enough it smells like something is burning just a block or two away. Over 300,000 acres have burned. Hoping that conditions are better where you are… Have a great day.

Good morning Marion, and anyone else who’s up. Very scary fire situations in too many states. Thank goodness we’re addressing global warming:(